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VOL.26 :: NO.45 :: Nov. 08 - 14, 2003
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FOR most Indian sports fans, a perfect Diwali gift would be a Sachin Tendulkar century, preferably against world champion Australia.
Up there with the very bestAny cricketer who can make such a serious impact in both forms of the game with the willow has to be special. Behind the stumps, too, the lanky Gilchrist is a success. He is agile and swift defying the theory that wicket-keepers have to be short and light, writes S. DINAKAR.
FOR many he was a revelation. After the poor show at Gwalior when he sprayed the ball and looked below standard, Brad Williams came back strongly to leave a big impression on the Kiwis at Faridabad. He won the `Man of the Match' honours, and in ... Man of the Match for the umpteenth time HE must have run out of space, storing the Man of the Match trophies won over the years. But knowing Sachin Tendulkar, he would not mind acquiring a storehouse for the purpose. For he still has many more years of cricket left in him and many more ...
Cricket justice and soccer justiceTHE National Academy was given its official opening recently but if you lived in my country (England) you could have been excused for thinking that the ceremony had been postponed.
Swings in being India's captainIN the white heat and the brown dust of India's being "at home" — confronting Australia minus its World Cup pace battery — let us, in no way, underestimate the Live Channel 9 threat set to be later posed.
DD's commentary team seems to be on a player-counselling ego trip rather than briefing the stats-starved viewers of the vital details.
`I still have a lot of fun out of the game'"I watch a lot of cricket still and I am involved with Worcestershire. I usually run a box at Lord's. So I still have a lot of fun out of the game," said Tom Graveney, who, between 1951 and 1969, played 79 Tests and scored 4882 runs.
One for the futureSINCE Sonny Ramadhin became the first of his race to wear the famous West Indies burgundy colours in Test cricket in 1950, two unmistakable stereotypes have emerged of those West Indian cricketers whose forefathers were sent by the British to the Caribbean from the Indian sub-continent more than 150 years ago to work on the sugar and rice plantations.
Figo plans to retireReal Madrid's Portuguese midfielder Luis Figo has announced he is quitting international football after next summer's Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal. "I plan to leave the national team after the European Championship," Figo said in an interview ... Schlager's feat Table tennis world champion Werner Schlager has not only ended Chinese domination of the sport but was recently named Austria's Sportsman of the Year after a five-year monopoly by the country's skiers. It was the first time since FC Cologne ... 
Basketball shoe warsReebok won the latest skirmish in the ever-growing basketball shoe wars recently, signing Yao Ming ( 
Se Ri Pak makes historySe Ri Pak became the first woman to make the cut against the men in 58 years, firing a two-day total of 2-over-par 146 on the Korean golf tour's $ 250,000 SBS Super Tournament recently. "Yesterday and today has been the most burdening time of my ... The downside of being famous Thailand's golden boy Paradorn Srichaphan, nicknamed simply 'Ball' by his fans, is already beginning to experience the downside of being his country's most famous sportsman. Srichaphan commands similar levels of attention in Thailand as David ...
Lively Indian pitch foreign to Kiwis VIJAY YADAV, former Test wicketkeeper, was never so tense even at the height of the most demanding situation in his playing days. IND V AUS 
Tendulkar, Laxman crack the whipA portrait of the late Madhavrao Scindia welcomed the teams on the eve of the match. Facing the pavilion, a large board recalled his services to the game and spoke about his efforts towards the progress of cricket in Gwalior. IND V NZ Rain ruins match SACHIN TENDULKAR is among the better judges of a cricket pitch in the world today.
Pakistan records its first series win against South AfricaFortunes fluctuated till the very end before Pakistan managed a draw against South Africa in the second Test, for their first ever series (1-0) win against the Proteas. DHAKA TEST 
Bangladesh shows some verve in defeatIF the scoreboard is your only source of information, it will only tell you that Bangladesh lost yet another Test match, which is its 24th defeat in 25 Tests.
Swing will do the trickTHE conditions in India are often a nightmare for pacemen. It is hot and humid, and the wickets, by and large, are placid. I have seen many a promising career being nipped in the bud, the bowler in question giving it up, unable to surmount the ...
Showcasing rich traditions and cultureA brilliantly conceptualised display of colour and gaiety marked the grand Opening Ceremony, which got the first-ever Afro Asian Games under way at the GMC Balayogi Stadium in Gachibowli on the outskirts of Hyderabad. SNIPPETS 
Grand spectacleBY all means, it was Hyderabad's tyrst with sporting history. The grand spectacle of the opening ceremony for the inaugural edition of the Afro-Asian Games (October 24 to November 1) was a truly scintillating fare on all fronts.
This remarkable performance is the start of many good things for Pankaj Advani.
New giant of the green baizePANKAJ ADVANI picked up a cue when he was barely 10. By 11 he had compiled his first century break in billiards and snooker and a few days short of his 12th birthday, he had annexed the Karnataka State junior crowns in billiards and snooker. More ...
'There is a lot more to learn and improve' PANKAJ ADVANI had no clue about the significance of the Mysore Peta.
FROM No. 5 in the country to No. 5 in the world, it has been a quantum leap for the young man from Delhi. ATP CHALLENGER SERIES 
Three different champions emergeWHEN the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association embarked on an ambitious venture of conducting three $25,000 ATP Challenger tournaments on the trot, that too in centres which had the minimum facilities for the event, there were many sceptics who doubted the Association's wisdom.
Not bigger, just betterNot long ago, Justine Henin-Hardenne was a pint-sized dynamo with a great game but a fear of winning. Suddenly, she has become a two-time Grand Slam champion. By CINDY SHMERLER. JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE The bullied had turned bully The most compelling component of Justine Henin-Hardenne the champion is the one you cannot see.
Barua's consistent showFRESH and raring to go, Indian Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua won the fourth Tata International Open chess tournament at the J. R. D. Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur, overwhelming a field of 11 GMs, 12 International Masters and 176 rated players.
The European picture WE now at least know 11 of the teams which will contest in June and July, in Portugal, the European Championship.
Kenyan men sweep top five placesKenya's Evans Rutto has every reason to like the marathon. He won the Chicago Marathon in his first race at the distance as his countrymen swept the top five places.
Stunning show by TarundeepTARUNDEEP RAI, the teenaged sensation from Sikkim, now training at the Army Sports Institute in Pune came up with a stunning performance in the third National ranking archery tournament held in Hyderabad recently.
RonaldoWorld Cup hero Ronaldo is to star in a film in his native Brazil in which he plays the role of a hugely successful footballer, the website Terra has reported. The 27-year-old Real Madrid star will appear in the film "A Summer Show" in ... 
Andy RoddickThe U. S. Open champion Andy Roddick has given a revealing insight into the sort of behaviour the tennis umpire has to put up with. "I've never gone too far over the line," he told Rolling Stone magazine. "There's a way to go about it. ... 
Shane BondRecovering pace bowler Shane Bond is confident of being fit for the first home Test of the season. Bond, 28, has targeted the opening Test against Pakistan in Hamilton, starting on December 19, for his international comeback. He is being nursed ... 
Max MosleyMotorsport boss Max Mosley says changes being made to the World Rally championship are needed to safeguard its future. "We are trying very hard to get the costs down in some sensible region," the president of motorsport's governing body the FIA ...
Els joins elite companyWhen Ernie Els was six up against Thomas Bjorn with seven to play in the final of the HSBC World Matchplay at Wentworth, everyone thought that was that.
'I had success so early, so much and so fast'Annika Sorenstam was cold, wet and tired of hitting balls in the rain when she called her father and asked him to take her home. The road out of Bro-Balsta Golf Club in Stockholm loops around the driving range, and Tom Sorenstam couldn't help ... |
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